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A clip of Panorama from the Times Building, New York 1905, Bryant Park (and NYPL Building under construction) and Hippodrome Theater and Algonquin Hotel(upper-left corner behind the theater) Harry Houdini and Jennie the elephant performing at the Hippodrome The Hippodrome Building, built in 1951–52, at 1120 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth ...
The Orpheum Theatre, formerly Player's Theatre, is a 299-seat off-Broadway theatre on Second Avenue near the corner of St. Marks Place in the East Village neighborhood of lower Manhattan, New York City. The theatre is owned by Liberty Theatres, a subsidiary of Reading International, which also owns Minetta Lane Theatre. [1]
John Street Theatre, situated at 15–21 John Street, sometimes called "The Birthplace of American Theatre", [1] was the first permanent theatre in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York. [2] It opened on December 7, 1767, and was operated for several decades by the American Company .
List Name City (Roman name) City (modern name) Country Coordinates Diameter of the cavea Notes References Photographs Theatre at Apollonia Apollonia
As the Tivoli Theatre in 1954. The fifth theatre in New York to bear the name Olympic was located at 365 Fulton Street in Brooklyn. Built by the impresarios Hyde and Benham, it was originally called Hyde & Behmans Theater and was one of the leading vaudeville theatres in America during the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. This theatre was ...
It was the second theater to open in what is now known as the Theater District. (The first was the Empire Theatre, on the southeast corner of 40th Street and Broadway.) The complex consisted of the Music Hall, a large variety theater, the Lyric, a legitimate theater, the Concert Hall, for smaller music performances, and a rooftop garden theater.
The Century Theatre, originally the New Theatre, was a theatre at 62nd Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.Opened on November 6, 1909, it was noted for its fine architecture but due to poor acoustics and an inconvenient location it was financially unsuccessful.
The first theatre in New York City to bear the name The Winter Garden Theatre had a brief but important seventeen-year history (beginning in 1850) as one of New York's premier showcases for a wide range of theatrical fare, from variety shows to extravagant productions of the works of Shakespeare.